![]() In fact, that’s kind of why you’re out and about in the first place - some strange things are afoot at a secret point of interest, and the higher ups need someone of your specific set of skills. As is par for the course with post-apocalyptic settings, Encased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG features a sea of broken down machinery, derelict buildings, and plenty of hidden ruins for enemies to hide in and loot to… well, loot. It’s not a situation I think I’ve found myself in before in a gaming situation, so the chance to play something entirely new was fascinating.Įven though all wings are stuck underneath the same Dome, it doesn’t mean the world is small and known - in fact, it’s quite the opposite. ![]() Sure, I was able to walk around freely, but NPCs took one look at my jumpsuit and judged me immediately based off my uniform and treated me accordingly. In Encased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG, I found a unique role where I was somewhat restricted in my ability to roam, if only mentally, because of my station as a prisoner turned forced laborer. ![]() Although plenty of RPGs have plenty of unsavory classes, such as the thief, there’s still a sense of freedom to operate throughout the world. How will your life under the Dome play out?įor my first playthrough, I chose to live life as a reformed convict in the Orange Wing, looked down on by most people in positions of authority. #Encased review full#Available for $29.99, this 1970s-era tactical sci-fi RPG asks players to “fight enemies, explore the anomalous wasteland, level up your character, join one of the forces in the ruined world.” A 20 hour main story journey spanning 3 acts with a 30 – 40 hour full completion time (per wing) and 14 endings in all, Encased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG offers the exact kind of gameplay fans of the original Fallout games will immediately recognize. Within the first few minutes of Encased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG, it becomes abundantly clear that Dark Crystal Games was aiming for an old school isometric RPG experience with the caveat being you can rotate the camera as needed (a nice modern touch!). Will they choose the Silver Wing managers and financiers? Maybe the White Wing scientists? Perhaps the Black Wing military personnel or the Blue Wing engineers? Or will they tough it out with the Orange Wing laborers recruited from the world’s prisons? Whatever the backgrounds, their fates are similarly sealed. Their reasons for coming are vast and varied, but their reasons for staying are all the same: they remain because they cannot leave.Įncased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG enlists players to start their own new lives under The Dome, allowing them to choose their backstories for signing away the rest of their lives to a limited square footage. Then there are those who feel a higher power drew them to the mystical structure, although there are plenty more whose “higher power” was the court system transferring them from one prison to another. Some want to uncover its mysteries and understand why it suddenly appeared in the first place others see it as a way to earn untold riches. Encased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG’s Dome: many men enter, no man leaves.Įveryone comes to The Dome for different reasons. ![]()
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